William Mahan

William Mahan, also known as William Dainerd, was an American kidnapper in San Francisco, California. Mahan was suspected of kidnapping and ransoming the 9-year-old George Weyerhauser, the son of a Tacoma, Washington lumber man, and J. Edgar Hoover made it his goal to arrest him. On 7 May 1936, the FBI accosted Mahan at a house on Minna Street after he had returned home from the post office, but he maintained his innocence in the kidnapping case.